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Chilled Buyer

Employer
Bestway Wholesale-
Location
London- Bestway Head Office
Salary
Competitive salary plus attractive benefits package including Pension
Closing date
24 Feb 2019

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Buying, Supply Chain & Logistics

60 branches, a customer base of 100,000 retailers and a product line of over 25,000 items - Bestway is the largest independent food wholesaler in the UK. We’ve achieved our success by offering the best prices, service and choice to help retailers build their businesses.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Chilled Buyer to join us as we continue on our journey where both change and growth feature heavily.

The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing customer focused product decisions including product, pricing, promotion, placement, people and performances.

You will also have responsibility over negotiating with suppliers and providing leadership and strategic direction to the Category Team, enabling all sub-categories to achieve the financial plan.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing and delivering the Range plans
  • Ensuring the category and sub-category budgets are achieved
  • Working with the Supply Manager on the availability of their category
  • Building supplier relationships and collaboration opportunities
  • Negotiate annual agreements with suppliers to improve the commercial outlook for Bestway
  • Negotiate / upsell Bestway’s additional capabilities, for example Digital Advertising
  • Being responsible for the overall direction and performance of particular categories
  • Creating Category Business Plans from the annual category position profile
  • Ensuring new trends are brought into the business and an exit strategy for delisted products is in place
  • Full launch plans to be developed working with our Marketing, Sales and Operations teams
  • Developing and managing the promotion pricing strategy and promotional plans
  • Evaluating promotion performance and refining promotional plans to maintain successful promotional strategies
  • Ensuring appropriate items for markdown and on markdown to achieve planned sell-through and exit dates on seasonal product
  • Monitoring market conditions to establish necessary price changes
  • Ensuring Bestway has a competitive offer versus the market place
  • Ensuring that Bestway can profitably compete within the market place

To take on this exciting opportunity you’ll ideally have an understanding of retail/wholesale products, services and policies with experience in buying, inventory or analysis. Knowledge of key business drivers eg, pricing, promotion, range and product trends coupled with strong planning and negotiation skills is key.

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders effectively. You will be comfortable balancing and delivering on a wide range of challenges and tasks, be adaptable and flexible with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

At Bestway, we’re passionate about meeting our customers’ needs and working as a team to grow our business. So if you’re looking for an opportunity to make an impact on an ambitious company that’s built its way up from humble beginnings, this is the role for you.

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